Robinson Crusoé em Foe: Coetzee lê Defoe com as lentes do pós-colonialismo

Abstract

This study consists of the approach of the travel writing from the perspective of two authors - Daniel Defoe, in the eighteenth century, and John Maxwell Coetzee, in the twentieth century. It establishes, through comparativism, the textual and historical relations between their respective works, Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Foe (1986). The novel Foe appears as a contemporary reinterpretation of the travel narrative genre which had already been developed in Robinson Crusoe, an earlier of this thematic category. Coetzee takes over the classic work establishing reflections concerning the colonial context in which Defoe wrote his work. Thus Coetzee takes a new look at the theme under the focus of the post-colonialism approach. This perspective reflects the way of writing the text, so the genre, reflection of the image of a period, ends up being rebuilt, according to the post-modern perspective.